Fragment of account
A fragment of an account.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1405
Fragment of an account of expenses for wineskins and ropes TM 1405Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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A small fragment of an account listing expenses in drachmas for wineskins, tow and ropes, and a payment to a barber for shearing the skins. It belongs to the Zenon archive from Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid-3rd century BC.
In English machine translation
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[…] (illegible traces) […]
of small change: wineskins, 72 drachmas;
tow, 4 drachmas; ropes, 6 drachmas;
to the barber who sheared (?) the wineskins […]
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"Kermation" means small change, apparently payments made in copper coin. The barber was presumably paid to shear the hair off the skins used to make wineskins.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of account). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.cair.zen.4.59780
[… ? lines lost …] …λ…ο…του…… κερματίου ἀσκοὺς δραχμαὶ οβ, στίππυον δραχμαὶ δ, σχοινία δραχμαὶ ϛ, κουρεῖ τῶι τοὺς ἀσκοὺς κείραντι[…] [… ? lines lost …]